Room Availability Calendar Pro adds paid Joomla bookings

Joomla core can publish accommodation, venue or service information through articles, categories, custom fields and menus, and it can handle ordinary user accounts and contact forms. It does not provide a complete resource-availability calendar with reservations, payment collection, booking history and administrative booking workflows out of the box.

Sites usually fill that gap with a booking extension, or build a narrower solution with custom fields, forms and a template override. A template override can change how existing content is displayed, but it cannot by itself prevent double bookings or process payments. According to the listing, this extension goes beyond basic availability and reservation handling with Stripe and PayPal payments, payment links sent by administrators, guest booking history, CSV reservation import, editable email templates, events and reporting.

It is aimed at hotels, guesthouses, apartment operators, property managers, fitness and wellness businesses, restaurants and event venues that need online payment at booking. A brochure site, a business that accepts reservations by phone, or a site that only needs a simple events calendar has little reason to install it.

The listing marks it as a paid download under the GPLv2 or later licence and says there are no subscriptions, but it does not show the price here. Before installing, check payment gateway requirements, cancellation and refund handling, tax and currency support, calendar conflict rules, email delivery, privacy implications and the scope of reporting. Darko has one other directory extension listed, while this entry has no reviews. The listing states Joomla 4 and 5 compatibility, but leaves the exact payment setup, support terms and limits of the planned mobile app and multi-property features unanswered.

Listed on the Joomla Extensions Directory.